I have been working to get my external HDD detected on my rooted FireTV 4K for the past 3 1/2 hours now.
I have tried every suggestion/tutorial I could find on google. I tried ParagonNTFS, Stickmount, I even tried the adbLink mount tools, also was going to try the BusyMount things out but the main websites download link is broken and google came up empty.
Nothing has worked..
It's a 1TB NTFS External HDD..
I plug it in the ExHDD light comes on and no matter what I do or attempt it simply will not detect that I have an external HDD plugged in to this thing..
I tested a couple small thumb drives on FAT32 & NTFS and they all worked fine, are there any other solutions to getting a external HDD detected ??
I mean.. I didn't want to use the FAT32 FS so I rooted only to find out that it's not detecting the NTFS lol..
PS : Just tried my main external HDD on FAT32 instead of NTFS and it's still is not detected... Looks like some external HDD's are not "compatible" with the FireTV :/ fml.
PSS : Tried exFAT still nothing, I see no errors when plugging in the 1TB external HDD either. it gives absolutely no notification as to detecting the external drive, could this be because my external HDD does not have it's own power cord ??
well what i here is that the fire tv port don't have enough power to run an External HDD. it need it own external power hub . check aftnews for more info. and also checkout this link and post #7 for more instruction.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/accessing-ntfs-drive-via-fire-tv-4k-t3305188
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Hi guys is there any way to make an external usb drive work on kindle as external storage, like a secondary partition with USB OTG. I'm willing to add an external pendrive to install apps there when I run out of space. Thanks . A friend of mine did install CM but he said kindle fire it's only outputting around 2.7 volts instead of 5 volts on usb .. so dunno.
I'm willing to buy a tablet and thinking on adding external storage but without a usb hub. Any advice
I have a WD My Passport 2TB USB drive. It WAS working fine, I plug it into my PC and my tablet and then yesterday afternoon I started getting the error "USB storage is blank or has unsupported filesystem". I might have unplugged it from android without clicking to safely remove it.
Key info:
-It works fine on my PC, and I did a tools and Error-checking on my PC on the drive and it found now errors. And I deleted files on the drive related to Android
-It's NTFS format.
-I have restarted the tablet, cleared the cache partition.
-Any other USB drive works fine on the tablet.
-IT DID WORK GREAT UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Any thoughts? are there any files within android related to a specific USB deviced that could be locked/corrupt I can delete that might clear this?
This had happened before on a different tablet/different USB device and power cycling the tablet cleared the problem.
Could there be a setting issue that has changed that is stopping the Passport from getting the power it needs?
No one had any thoughts on this?....
does all other ntfs drives don't read too?
does all other ntfs drives don't read too?
Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks
salahfathi said:
Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks
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I can use my WD USB HDD mounted via OTG and formatted NTFS using paragon app to mount (root required). This is tested with my SkyHigh kernel.
I don't know if device natively supports it with stock kernel, but should be able to mount at least fat formatted USB HDD without root and visible with Samsung file manager.
Not real sure about the battery, but would obviously use qite a bit. I haven't tested to quantify the "bit".
salahfathi said:
Iam considering buying an external 1 terabyte or more hard drive to keep my files so I can use my tab without a laptop
But I don't know if it will support that kind of storage via usb otg
Pls help if anyone tried
One other question is this will drain tab battery or what
Thanks
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I have a pair of 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus drives that I use with my tablet. I formatted them as exFAT on a Windows computer and they automount on the tablet when connected. The tablet does not provide enough power to spin the drive. I use a USB Y cable to supply extra power from another power supply.
PeteAlleman said:
I have a pair of 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus drives that I use with my tablet. I formatted them as exFAT on a Windows computer and they automount on the tablet when connected. The tablet does not provide enough power to spin the drive. I use a USB Y cable to supply extra power from another power supply.
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How do u do that can u show me a picture pls
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I can use my WD USB HDD mounted via OTG and formatted NTFS using paragon app to mount (root required). This is tested with my SkyHigh kernel.
I don't know if device natively supports it with stock kernel, but should be able to mount at least fat formatted USB HDD without root and visible with Samsung file manager.
Not real sure about the battery, but would obviously use qite a bit. I haven't tested to quantify the "bit".
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Could ANYONE please confirm that ?
If it's true it means that a fix is possible via system files.
THANK YOU A LOT
Hi, if any of you tried to connect a flash drive with ntfs file system? Unfortunately my 32gb sandisk extreme is unrecognizable. I have tried programs like StickMount, Paragon NTFS Mounter and exFAT, NTFS & HFS +, and only the last one detects the flash drive but can not read the files on it.
Did you download the helper functions for StickMount and put them in the correct place? I've successfully reading a NTFS external hard drive on my S5 with that combo but haven't tried it on my tablet.
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Unfortunetly no. Can U help me?
EDIT: I put ntfs-3g on internal storage ( /sdcard ) but it still does not work. StickMount shows that mass storage is mounted in sdcard/usbstorage/sda1 but I dont have folder sda1 :/
EDIT2: I found where StickMount is mounted usb (data/media/0/usbStorage/sda1). I see all files but when I try to open (pdf or mkv movie) shows error (Adobe or VLC found usb error try to refresh media library).
EDIT3: When I copy file from usb to my sdcard everything is working. Any ideas how to read files from mounted USB or what is wrong?
Dizzyrul3z said:
Unfortunetly no. Can U help me?
EDIT: I put ntfs-3g on internal storage ( /sdcard ) but it still does not work. StickMount shows that mass storage is mounted in sdcard/usbstorage/sda1 but I dont have folder sda1 :/
EDIT2: I found where StickMount is mounted usb (data/media/0/usbStorage/sda1). I see all files but when I try to open (pdf or mkv movie) shows error (Adobe or VLC found usb error try to refresh media library).
EDIT3: When I copy file from usb to my sdcard everything is working. Any ideas how to read files from mounted USB or what is wrong?
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I too have have tried all the different apps to read any OTG flashdrive. NTFS, 32bit and so on, none would work. Advised by one of kernel developers that rom/kernel must support OTG mounting and stock kernel does not. So it's not what you are doing but the stock device doesn't support. Only available by installing a custom rom/kernel that does. So far I think there is only one I know of for the 10.5 wifi. Not what sure what you are running but check the two threads for a kernel that will for you device. Good luck and if you find one, please come back and post what u found.
Fire OS: 5.2.7.6 (659654620) - sloane rom
Apps: Total Commander, ES File Manager, Kodi
Hard Drive: Passport 2TB
About a week ago, I was running 5.2.1.1 for a few years and with Paragon NTFS+ and didnt have any issues. I removed my Passport drive and then updated it with content and plugged it back into my USB powered hub and my Fire TV2 didnt see the drive. Its happened like this once before and a simple disconnect and reconnect fixed the issue but not this time. I have uninstalled a number of different Paragon NTFS apps (from plugins, to different versions), Stick Mount 3.50, NTFS Mounter, and my FireTV2 no longer sees the drive. I thought I would upgrade the ROM on my FireTV2 and have done this as now I am on the above rom and the same issue is happening. The OS does indicate the drive isnt FAT32 so its seeing the drive but not mounting it despite installing these different apps.
I have enjoyed the Fire TV2 for a number of years with no issues and for the life of me, cant get it to read NTFS external drives.
I have tested the drive in my desktop and laptop, both see the drive without any issues. I have tried different ports on the USB hub and nothing is working. The same hub can read FAT32 without any issues but I have files that are 10GB+ and require NTFS. I have reformatted the drive and copied content over again, ran disk defrag on the drive and the Fire TV2 for whatever reason isnt working.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears...